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A healthy habit to stick with

I’ve been craving for brownie lately. On average last week, I ate one little (less than 1-square inch) bar a day. That says I was low on energy and needed some power surge. Get ready for a run? No, not yet. Now I am having some zits on my face. Is it the chocolate or the Obagi? I can’t tell.
I was eating regularly for past two weeks, one grapefruit juice a day, tuna tomato green salad for lunch, avocado berried instant oatmill in the morning, more vegetables for dinner. I was doing good. I stopped using Obagi for two weeks as my skin is so sensitive to that stuff. They are all the samples from my sister.
So I tried the AM Exfoliate again yesterday. Thinking it was weekend, if anything happened (the worst is some breakouts) I am not going anywhere. And it did give me some jits in the evening.
Man, too much for all these cosmetic skin care products.
I am going back to where I was before, keep doing what I had been doing.
A few months ago (probably 6 months or so) , Mr Vinh at work (a philosophical and friendly man who likes to tease on every one) commented that my complexion looked good. I remember I was alternating Exuviance Rejuvenating Complex and Retin-A at night. The Retinol helped. I realized women need someone like him to be an honest commenter or what we call a true “reference point”.
Right around the end of January, my sister commented my skin looked good then. What was going on two weeks before that: I took a lot of rest, went to bed at same time every night, drinking more water.
And the Cetaphil sunscreen SPF 50 with anti-oxidants helped to give my skin a glowing look during daytime.
Note that the time in between, my skin was like an on and off, under the weather mood. So what made it look good was a process, which can break down if not kept up. So I ‘d better maintain by keeping track of what I do to my face on a calendar. Manytimes I asked myself when I last had a microderm or a facial or a light peel. I’d better train myself into the habit of filling up the calendar.
It can get tedious but it is a healthy habit. So I’d better stick with it.